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I must be broken from my self-realization, and immediately that point is reached, the reality of the supernatural identification takes place at once, and the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable - I have been crucified with Christ.

What next, Lord?’ ‘Now you pass to another sphere where you become aware that you are joined to Me as your life.’” “Our identification with Christ in His death was a death unto Sin-the principle of Sin as a master and a tyrant-Sin, not sins.

We have to ask Him to examine our rebellious and carnal nature – to know the difference between :- 1) Christ as substitute and Christ as representative. 2) between sanctification truths and identification truths. 3) between the new-life in Christ and the old-life in Adam. 4) between the spiritual believer and a carnal Christian.

Identification Truths
These Scriptures are a matter of certainty for God word is unbreakable.

We do not have to do anything for these truths are completed in us by the Spirit. In Romans 6 Paul tells us we were baptised into the death of Christ Jesus and this talks about our identification with Christ’s death.

This is the problem of teaching the identification' truths without the consequent conformity of death which brings forth life.

We may rely upon the fact that we died' with the Lord Jesus, and assume that it is entirely wrought in us at once, not realizing that the fellowship of His sufferings' follows the apprehension of identification.

Biblical Truths
Christ died FOR us – He died as our substitute – He paid the full price for all our sins. We died WITH Christ – we are identified with Him – He broke the power of sin in us. Substitutionary truths are linked with our birth from above – we are saved by grace. Identification truths are linked with growth in the Christian life – we grow by grace.

All we had to do was believe. Our identification with Christ is also by grace – and all we have to do is believe it. God has so designed salvation that it had nothing to do with our merit or works.

Willing Victim
Christ died instead of us for our forgiveness – He lives instead of us for our deliverance. When we start to see the significance of the fuller cross – it produces a liberty in life. Because Christ died as the willing victim – death has no more dominion over Him. Because our identification is with Christ – sin shall no more have dominion over us. I have been crucified with Christ.

Gates of Grace
The first 7 verses of Romans chapter 6 spell out the significance of being crucified unto sin. This short passage gives a birds-eye view of a believer’s identification with Christ. This precious portion of scripture unfolds the advantages of grace – in logical steps..

It may take a day or a month, I do not know how long, but I do know that when any child of God will believe and begin to express that faith in thanksgiving, day by day thanking Him for the fact which one may not yet have experienced, the Holy Spirit will lead that one into a glorious personal realization of his identification with the Lord Jesus in His death, burial, resurrection and ascension. -L.L.L.

It is a question of loosening the bands that hinder the life, and immediately those bands are loosened by identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God whereby we can sacrifice our lives to Him.

All my ability to act for the Lord Jesus here depends on my conscious identification with Him where He is, not where He was for me; though as I receive power from Him I walk here even as He walked; His life is manifested in me. -J.B.S.

Identification
Another vitally important foundational truth is identification Identification with Christ is essential for the spiritual growth of a believer, and chapter 8 of The Green Letters briefly outlines these foundational truths… through the thoughts and writings of a range of time-honored saints of God:-

The believer there sees not only that Christ died for him — substitution — but that he died with Christ — identification” (Thoughts on Life and Godliness, p.50).

Huegel:
“If the great Luther, with his stirring message of justification by faith, had with Paul moved on from Romans 5 to Romans 6 with its amazing declarations concerning the now justified sinner’s position of identification with his crucified Lord, would not a stifled protestantism be on higher ground today?

This will lead, under the Lord’s hand, to the fuller understanding of the meaning of identification with Christ, as in Romans six. Happy is the man who has been instructed in this from the beginning” . (What Is Man?

Very little abiding growth and fruit can be known by the believer until he accepts the fact of identification (Rom. 6:6), and to it responds by an attitude of faith (Rom. 6:11), thus yielding himself to the Holy Spirit for the life of the Lord Jesus to be manifested in and through him (Rom. 6:13). -G.W.

Immediately you transact in confident faith in what Our Lord did on the Cross, a supernatural identification with His death takes place, and you will know with a knowledge that passeth knowledge that your old man is crucified with Christ.

We mistake the ecstasy of our first introduction into the Kingdom for the purpose of God in getting us there; His purpose in getting us there is that we may realize all that identification with Jesus Christ means.

a total identification with the oblation was pictured here – a full transferral of trespasses, as sins passed from the sinner to the sacrifice. The innocent animal was to die. The guiltless creature was offered in the stead of the sinner. The life of the sinless beast was thus to be fully accepted – fully accepted as the life of the sinful man.

2-Way Identification
God’s grace united us with His death.. making His death full payment for our sins. Our faith identifies us with Him now.. making His sacrifice efficacious on our behalf. This is full identification with Him. This is a two-way identification… I in Him – and He in me. He identifies with me – a sinner worthy of eternal death.

identification means more. His death not only made possible the wonderful pardon by the transfer of sins. His death/life has also made necessary the transfer of His sovereignty to us. Our old sin nature for a new position in Christ..

Full Identification
Because we are in Christ, we are committed to God as was the Lord Jesus. Because He in us, we submit to His gracious leading and working in our lives. He has promised to keep all..

After months, even years of deep darkness and soul struggle to realize more life, more holiness, more power in his soul, I finally come in utter self-despair to “rest upon the Faithful One.” The sweetest part, (if one may say of one part being sweeter that another)- the sweetest part is the rest which full identification with Christ brings.

Identification with Christ
But through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Paul challenges each of us to learn Christ… an outward, objective observance was to become an inward, subjective service. It was no longer to be an imitation of His life but an identification with Himself.. not just know about Him but know Him – not just learn about Him but learn Him. The permanently indwelling Spirit of Christ is to be our life in all that we are.

Identify with Christ
During His earthly walk, Jesus said to His disciples in Matthew, “take my yoke upon you and learn of Me.” Matt.11:29. After His glorification into heaven Paul set the standard – to Learn Christ. It is not an imitation of the life of Christ but an identification with Christ Who is life. We cannot imitate Him for to do so we would fail – but we can identify with Him.

Humanities Choice
Every single person has a choice to move from being in Adam to being in Christ. Every member of humanity has the choice to change camps and swap parties. Every person who ever lived has a positional identification with Adam or Christ – but how few make the choice – how few consider the eternal ramifications.

Positional Identification
The human race is divided into two camps – two parties – two distinct factions. Each person has a positional identification with Adam OR with Christ.. but every person has a choice to move from being in Adam to being in Christ.

Romans 5:12-14
In Romans 5:12-21 Paul spells out our positional identification in Adam or in Christ:- When Adam sinned, sin entered the world.

Our Lord never puts personal holiness to the fore when He calls a disciple; He puts absolute annihilation of my right to myself and identification with Him - a relationship with Him in which there is no other relationship.

Luke 14:26 has nothing to do with salvation or sanctification, but with unconditional identification with Jesus Christ.

Saved Believer
The saved believer is the one that is delivered from sin’s power by the cross of Christ. Our union and identification with Him, breaks the power of sin at the cross – it is the cross of Christ that breaks sins power in us, through identification with Him. It is this identification of the believer with Christ that severs the power of sin in our life. Our identification with the cross of Christ breaks the inherent power of sin in a believer – we are no longer under slavery to sin for it was broken by the power of the cross.

The Cross stands for one thing only for us - a complete and entire and absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is nothing in which this identification is realized more than in prayer.

Eternally Divine Nature
The reason that the eternally divine nature of the second person of the Trinity joined with the fully human nature of the person of Jesus Christ, is so that by His identification with us – we could come into harmony and communion, with the Father.

They do not as yet see the crucifixion, death, and burial of the sinner - the entire displacement of the old system of things belonging to their first-Adam position; in a word, their perfect identification with their risen and ascended Lord. -C.H.M.

Whenever we step back from identification with God's interest in others people, into sympathy with them, the vital connection with God has gone, and we have put our sympathy, our consideration for them in the way, and this is a deliberate rebuke to God.

Identification is the key to intercession, and when we stop being identified with God, it is by sympathy, not by sin.

Forgiveness means not merely that I am saved from hell and made right for heaven (no man would accept forgiveness on such a level); forgiveness means that I am forgiven into a recreated relationship, into identification with God in Christ.

Identification
Forgiveness of sins is a fairly simple and acceptable concept – substitution.

But sin as a ruling power in our lives requires – identification. And unless this is taught and understood – a disciple’s growth can be stunted, and worse still – believers try to do the work in their life that only God can do.

Salvation Truths
Substitution truths are generally wonderfully understood – He died for me. Identification truths are a much more difficult concept – I died in Him. So what are substitution truths and identification truths?

The death penalty for sin was paid. Sin in the life of every believer is totally acquitted, for Christ died for our sins. BUT sin as a master, ruling our forgiven lives – requires identification with Him.

Identification Truth
IDENTIFICATION – is where we died in Him at the cross – we identity with Him. In order to understand our identification – we must appropriate truths in Romans 6. Romans six is the liberating truth of identification – with Christ on the cross. Romans seven explains the trap many fall into – without apprehending this truth. A careful study of Romans 6, 7 and 8 outlines this fundamental, foundational truth..

Foundational Truth
I once heard about a godly man who read Romans – once, every month of his life. He wanted to firmly grasp and implement this concept of identification with Christ. The early chapters of Romans describe in startling clarity God’s hatred of sin. In logical sequence Paul explains how everyone has knowledge of their Creator God.

Two Laws
But then comes the wonderful TRUTH of Romans chapter 6 – identification. Because we are in Christ, we are not subject to the law of sin and death. Because we are in Christ, we are subject to the law of life and liberty in Christ. One saint of God describes it in these terms… He has put our old man – our original self – where He put our sins… namely, on the cross with Christ.

There is no need to have confidence in any physical, fleshly identification with Israel – for we have been spiritually identified with Christ Himself – and are ONE with Him.What grace that we who were once “Gentiles-in-the-flesh”, and called “the Uncircumcision” by the ones who are called “the Circumcision”, are NOW called “the true ‘Circumcision”, because of our faith!Before our salvation we were at enmity with God, outside of Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise.

Our positional identification and progressive sanctification with the Lord Jesus will be completed and we will be perfected, spirit, soul and body - and He has promised, I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem.

their identification with him) as they crossed the Red Sea, and in spite of the many signs and wonders that followed the children of Israel in their wilderness wanderings, the Lord was not pleased with them..

Whatever Christ's baptism signified - whether it was His identification with sinners, for whom He was to be the substitute; an act of obedience to His Father, in order to fulfil the righteous requirements of the Law; a presentation of Himself as the Messiah of Israel and Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world; an act of dedication to His God and Father, or simply a picture of His forthcoming death and resurrection - we know that in the days of John the Baptist's ministry - Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptised by John in the Jordan.

Having died to the Law through my identification with Christ means that sin can no longer be counted against me and the Law can no longer be used to condemn me.

My identification with Christ means that I died with Him and arose with Him, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me - so that I might no longer live for myself, but live for God, to His praise and glory, for ever and ever.

Because of their new birth and position in Christ, their future inheritance, their identification with Christ's holiness and their Christian standing in the community, these elders in the Church are exhorted by Peter, to take care for their brothers and sisters in Christ, and to shepherd the people of God.

Death to self; persevering prayer; identification with Christ's suffering and a life of sacrifice for the glory of God, has been replaced with enjoying your best life now, living for self and making great spiritual proclamations and positive confessions.. (where self-incited “faith' become a force..

Identification with Christ's death is the most thrilling doctrine for the believer.

Because of the death of Christ and our identification with His death, sin no longer remained our master..

Our new, born-again life in Christ is no longer a slave to sin but a servant of righteousness - and praise God that identification with His life is also part of that thrilling doctrine of identification with Christ.

Praise God that the certain consequence of our identification with Christ's death and resurrection by faith is our full and final sanctification - spirit, soul and body..

for our identification with Christ's death, burial and resurrection not only paid the penalty for our sin, but has also severed us from our relationship with Adam - transferring us from Adam's fallen, sinful race (where we were imputed with sin) into Christ's new, perfected race (where we are imputed with Christ's righteousness) .

Our identification with Christ cut us off from our association with the first creation..

As Christians, our identification with Christ's resurrection, is the absolute assurance that we, who have been saved by grace through faith in Him, will likewise be raised from the dead, into newness of life - for we are saved... spirit, soul and body, and we will have resurrection bodies, like unto His glorious Body.